Sort Sheets in IDW

[Anonymous]

Looking for an iLogic Snippet to sort the sheets in the browser. I see there is an ad-in for 2015 but I'm still on 2014. Any help many thanks.

[MechMachineMan]

Sort by name, or some other criteria?

[Anonymous]

Sort by name.

Thanks

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

Hello,

just did this :

Sub Main

	Dim drawingDoc As DrawingDocument = ThisDoc.Document
	Dim sheet As Sheet = Nothing
	Dim sheetsList As New List(Of Sheet)
	Dim browserPane As BrowserPane = drawingDoc.BrowserPanes.Item("Model")

	For Each sheet In drawingDoc.Sheets
		sheetsList.Add(sheet)
	Next
	
	sheetsList.Sort(AddressOf Comparer)
	
	For Each sheet In sheetsList
		Dim sheetNode As BrowserNode = browserPane.GetBrowserNodeFromObject(sheet)
		Dim bottomNode As BrowserNode = browserPane.TopNode.BrowserNodes.Item(browserPane.TopNode.BrowserNodes.Count)
		browserPane.Reorder(bottomNode, False, sheetNode)
	Next
	
End Sub

Private Function Comparer(x As Sheet, y As Sheet) As Integer
	Return String.Compare(x.Name,y.Name)
End Function

So you can just copy/paste it in an iLogic Rule, its pretty working 🙂

Best regards,

[Anonymous]

Thanks It works

[Anonymous]

I cut and pasted into 3 drawings with a number of sheets and it works fine. On the 4th one (with 2 sheets) I get the attached error.

When putting the code into my templates I get the same error. Probably because there is nothing to sort.

Ideas?

[Anonymous]

Looks like There needs to be at least 3 sheets to work. With One ore Two it will error.

Steve

[Anonymous]

Can you show me a printscreen of the Inventor instance so I can ses your drawing content?

[Anonymous]

Here is a screen shot. Works with 3 sheets or more.

Steve

[mikhail_tsarev]

Thanks for your code!

But for some reason it doesn`t work with my files... 

Here is a screenshot of the error message:

I would be very grateful if you could help me to find the solution. My knowledge of ilogic is not enough to identify the cause of such a behavior.

!UPD!

I found the solution! I need to replace "Model" with "Модель" (because I use the localized version and the name of the browser panel is translated). Now it works really good (and with DWG too)!

Thank you!

[Anonymous]

I have had a stroke. Can’t think like I used to. Post like I did and ask your question to the masses.

[Anonymous]

You are welcome!